Open AccessRadioactivity Content of Wheat Fields in Wasit Governorate - Iraq
Author(s) -
Hadi D. Alattabi,
Shafik S. Shafik,
Fatima T. Abdel Jabbar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1279/1/012041
Subject(s) - isotope , content (measure theory) , natural radioactivity , soil water , soil test , radiochemistry , environmental science , radionuclide , chemistry , soil science , physics , nuclear physics , mathematics , mathematical analysis
The radioactivity content of soil of wheat fields of all Wasit cities have been measured using gamma spectroscopy adopted with high pure germanium coaxial detector. The specific radioactivities of Ra-226, Ac-228, and K-40 NORM isotopes have been measured. The overall average values of those isotopes for the investigated soil samples were 38.22, 10.67, and 409.4 Bq/kg. The results showed that some fields have higher radioactivity content according to the international agencies, and these results strongly suggested that the farmers don’t washing the fields’ soil.